Wellness

Offering a wide range of wellness programs, resources and tools, OptumHealth Care Solutions helps consumers understand their overall health status and take an active role in their personal health and wellness. In addition to online tools, we offer programs in Healthy Weight, Tobacco Cessation, Wellness Coaching, and Onsite Wellness.

Solutions:

	100 Smart Choices — Prevention and Healthy Living Guide
	Unhealthy lifestyles are the primary contributors to the six leading causes of death in the U.S., which collectively account for more than 70 percent of all deaths. 100 Smart Choices is a motivating prevention and healthy living guide that helps readers get healthy and stay healthy.

Taking Care Health Newsletter

Lifestyle accounts for 87.5 percent of health care claims costs.¹ The Taking Care newsletter covers the most current health care topics and provides members with the information they need to make healthy lifestyle decisions every day.

¹Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) 2006 Study, United Business Media. “New IPFW Study Finds 87 percent of Health Claims Lifestyle Related — Study Using Benicomp(R) Advantage Reinforces Value of Rewarding Healthy Lifestyle Choices.” http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20070104/LATH06204012007-1.html, Accessed March 2008.

At-home Screening Kit

A study by the Centers for Disease Control revealed that more than 50 percent of individuals do not visit their physician on a regular basis.¹ The OptumHealth At-home Screening Kit is a convenient, cost-effective way to help all employees become aware of important biometrics, and take better control of their health. View Maxine's story.

1. Centers for Disease Control. Chronic Disease Overview 2007, www.cdc.gov.

	Consumer Solutions
	OptumHealth Consumer Solutions provides personalized health portals, Web-based tools and marketing services that engage consumer populations in conjunction with care, wellness or behavioral management programs.

Flu Vaccination

In the United States, an estimated 25 to 50 million cases of the flu are reported each year — leading to more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 30,000-40,000 deaths annually.¹ The OptumHealth onsite flu vaccinations are a great way to help protect your employees and their families from contracting and spreading the flu.

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Influenza. www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm, Accessed August 2006.

	Health Kiosk
	The Health Kiosk is a convenient, ongoing way for individuals to measure their key biometrics at the worksite. The kiosk also allows employers to monitor the overall health status of their employee population.

	Healthy Weight
	OptumHealth’s Healthy Weight program is a nonsurgical weight-management solution that focuses on changing an individual’s behavior and lifestyle choices to produce long-lasting results and improve their quality of life.

	Know Your Numbers
	Many individuals are unaware of their current health status, and therefore unaware of their health risks. The OptumHealth Know Your Numbers screening package provides participants with accurate, important personal health information in minutes so they can take control of their health. Watch the video to learn more.

National Reminders

Chronic disease is the leading cause of direct health care costs. Researchers estimate 75 percent of all health care costs stem directly from preventable chronic health conditions, yet only 1 percent of the $1.9 trillion dollars spent on health care in the United States goes to protecting health and preventing illness and injury.^1,2 Care Solutions’ National Reminders Program works to change this by emphasizing prevention, early detection and treatment.

¹Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. National Health Expenditures and Selected Economic Indicators, Levels and Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years 1990-2013. Washington, D.C.: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary; 2004.
²Institute of Medicine. The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press; 2002.

Tobacco Cessation

Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.¹ Numerous studies show that the sooner a person quits, the better their chances become at avoiding long-term complications. OptumHealth Care Solutions’ QuitPower^® Advanced Tobacco Cessation program is designed to help individuals realize these health benefits by quitting tobacco for good.

¹Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood. National Institutes of Health 2006. http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2006/nichd-11.htm

Wellness Advising

Each year more than one-third of older Americans experience a fall.¹ By working to prevent such falls, reducing their physical impact when they cannot be prevented, and by avoiding some of the health consequences of being overweight or underweight, our Wellness Advising program helps the growing population of aging Americans stay healthy and live independently as long as possible.

¹Hausdorff JM, Rios DA, Edelber HK. Gait variability and fall risk in community-living older adults: a 1-year prospective study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2001;82(8):1050-1056.

Wellness Coaching

Our coaches are the heart of our Wellness Coaching programs. Our dedicated 1:1 coaching model allows our coaches to build a meaningful coach/member relationship to drive behavior change, and it shows. Our wellness coaches consistently receive over 95 percent satisfaction scores with our members.* See what inspires our coaches.

*Based on the 2008 OptumHealth book of business annual report of members who completed the wellness coaching programs.